While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

The film explores the profound power of language, emphasizing its role as humanity's oldest tool for communication and expression. It discusses the evolution of language from spoken to written forms, ...

At only 3 years old in 1812, a little French boy named Louis Braille found himself alone in his father’s harness-making shop.

A writing system developed by one of the world’s earliest urban societies has given linguists nothing but grief since it was ...

Recent advances in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are enabling the development of a wide range of systems with ...

When we think of writing systems we likely think of an Alphabetic writing system, where each symbol (letter) in the alphabet represents a basic sound unit, such as a consonant or a vowel.

Still, Geftic cautions, you need to double-check that your new writing tablet works with the system of your choice. “The vast majority of writing tablets offer cloud sync, but if you need access ...

Deciding if a set of symbols actually represent a writing system; – Devising appropriate procedures ... ‘a’); –Assigning to each symbol their specified value, whether phonetic or otherwise; –Trying to ...

New wave of Hong Kong parents overseas are creating tools to ensure their language and culture do not disappear from the next generation.

A braille slate is a writing guide with a template of evenly ... away their position and lead to costly losses. Barbier’s system was based on 12-dots whose combinations represented different phonetic ...